Comments on: How to Install a Phone Jack

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:33:21 +0000

Hello everyone. My friend asked me to hook up several rj45 jacks to handle data from his hub that is in the basement.

The jacks he bought does not have the same color code as my cat5. The back of his RJ45 has reg/green, black/yellow,
orange/brown, and blue/white.

I hooked up my w/bl to the green/red
w/or to the black/yellow
w/gr to the brown/orange
w/br to the white/blue

He will not have service until later this week and was just curious if I used the proper hookup.

The other end of my cat 5 will have to have a RJ45 plug crimped onto it. Will my wire order be standard at that end because of this goofy jack?

Thanks for your help.

By: specialist

specialist — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:15 +0000

Hello,

I have an older home with a telephone connection where i dont want it, i want to remove it. How do you take the jack off?

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:24:46 +0000

Hello all, I have 3 black wires coming out of the wall and 4 wires from the jack to connect to those 3 wires. The 3 wires from the wall are not color coded, they are black, and by trial and error, I have been unable to get a dial tone. The phone was working fine, and all of a sudden, I have nothing, and nothing I’ve done has corrected the issue. If anyone can help feel free to e-mail me at O2ZL1427SS@GMAIL.com. Thanks

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:39:36 +0000

I love this site – thank you! I have the same problem “Amy” did; the wall phone jack died and when I took off the faceplate I see two sets of wires with the same colors coming in. Am I correct in assuming one set is for my dsl and the other for the landline? The one thing I couldn’t figure out from your answer to Amy is whether I’m supposed to connect both sets of wires to the new jack. It looks as though they were all attached before but none of the wires are stripped. Thank you for your time.

D’Arcy

By: Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:15:31 +0000

Hi we tried to install an new jack in a bedroom, it seemed to work but lost the phone in the living room, we have one other phone that does work in another bed room, it is now the only phone to work. Any idea why the one jack quit working? We didn’t install the would have been the thrid phone after the one went dead, we thought that would make the one work but didn’t so we aren’t sure what we did wrong. The phones that don’t work in the one room do work in the bedroom jack that work,so it is not the phone. Any help would be appriecated.

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:52:31 +0000

Help! I recently moved the computer to where a phone line was only to realize the phone jack doesn’t work. I tried to switch the face plate with a working one. The wires are so short-one broke-now it is nearly impossible to hook them up. What do I do? Can I add wire? If this isn’t the problem do I call the phone company?

By: K Valentine

K Valentine — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:14 +0000

Andrew Says:
September 19th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Andrew, did you insert the dongles that come with your broadband Modem? You should have gotten about 2-3 of them for all the other jacks in the house. If they are not put into the other jacks, the phones will sound like static, and dsl won’t work.

By: K Valentine

K Valentine — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:02:40 +0000

Never mind, I figured it out. There was one twisted pair connected to the studs on the left blue blu/w and the orange twisted pair was cut. I extended the orange twisted pair, and attached them to the second set of studs ti the right, with the wire for the second line. At least I think that’s right. This is an old house, and the studs for the phone connections are just bare, uncovered. I used this “junction?” to put in a second phone on the same line in the past.

By: K Valentine

K Valentine — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:29:03 +0000

I have a connection in my basement, that has two studs with nuts on left side, and two studs with nuts on the right side. Thgre is a main cable coming in from the box outside, with a black and white wire. On left set of studs upper stud is a bluewire, lower stud is blue/white wire. At one time there was a second line in this house, orange &orange/white. For opening the second line again, to I just attach the orange &orange/white to the same studs as the blue & blue/white, or do I have to jump a wire(s) to the right side studs, and attach? I can send a picture, if that would help. In the box outside, there is a blue pair and ornage pair connected. My lines have never come directly from the external panel.

By: Brenda Williams

Brenda Williams — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:03:18 +0000

I have an old telephone wall mounted jack. There are 2 wires going into it, each separating into yellow, red, green and black. There are 8 screws available to attach these to–4 on each side of the jack. It was working just fine, but took the phone down to paint and I must have pulled one of the wires out and I don’t know how to reconnect them. 2 reds are attached to the second screw on the left, 1 green on the second screw on the right, all others not connected. I have tried connecting the other green with the green still attached to the second screw on the right, but no dial tone. What should I try? Thanks.